FreeCAD 0.20 For Beginners | 1 | Setup , preferences and navigation | Easy Tutorial for Learning CAD
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- The new beginners course to FreeCAD 0.20 a series of easy tutorials where we teach the fundamentals of freeCAD using the basics but deliver this via teaching you different workflows. In one lesson you may be learning how to sketch and build a model but will also be following a workflow that will take through the part design workbench all the way to exporting it out in STL format. In another lesson you may be learning how to model in the part workbench to see the differences between it and the part workbench but you will be following a workflow that will allow you to create 2D plans of your model to laser / paper cut.
We aim to teach you freeCAD in a practical way.
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How do you update frecad without reinstalling the program? Is that possible? Also, how do i import a ui from someone else?
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The absolute best FreeCAD tutorial on TH-cam. Thank you very much for this.
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Thank you for taking the time to produce these training videos.
Your mastery of Freecad allows you to get straight to the point in a concise and precise way.
In addition, your vocabulary and your pronunciation eliminate any possible ambiguity. Very good teacher.
In addition, your British accent is very pleasant to listen to.
Thank you so much for the feedback and kind words, great to hear that your enjoying these videos. The community has been so kind and it's a pleasure to share this knowledge with such grateful watchers. Thank you once again. Every time I read a comment like this it puts a smile on my face.
This tutorial is gold.
Im a 16 year old working on a project and that good man will give me a nice start.
Fantastic! Best of luck and so glad it's helped you.
This is the thing with softwares. 7 minutes into the one year old tutorial someone decided to remove the units tab so that the tutorial cannot be followed. (Yes, I did find it, but anyway- why changing around all the time)?
Where is it?
Thank you. This is the best introduction to this package I've found. I may actually be able to make the simple 3D object I have in mind!
Thank you for teaching the rest of us lads!
Thanks, Mango. It is really a superb idea beguin "again" with a freeCad beguinners guide (v 0.20), because the web is full of thousands of videos without schedule/planning.
Great idea and great job. Thanks a lot
Thanks for that, I was trying to figure out a way to bring together some of the concepts that I have touched on before in a structured way. It's been great to do these tutorials. I find you always need a real world example to really get the concepts across and that is one of the hardest things to come up with or find. The community have been great with the feedback, and I thank you all 😁😁
That was one of the clearest easy to follow tutorials ever. THANK YOU!!!
Great to hear, and thank you for feeding back
Happy Chappy. I'm using Version .20 and I went 90% of the way of part 1. Already watched pt2 so I'm looking forward to push that boat out.❤
Great to hear and welcome aboard, hope you enjoy the rest of the videos.
Just got a 3D printer and this tutorial is a life saver. 10/10
Great to hear 😊😊👍👍
Very glad I found your channel ! Just divorced from Windows to embrace Linux, needed a program to draw the plans of my Tiny House and for some fun 3D printing modeling later on. Love your style : calm, concise and very British, as a longtime anglophile this couldn't have turned out better lol. ThanX
Thank you for the feedback and kind words so happy this series has helped people like yourself. And thank you for commenting on the teaching style, it's exactly what I have been trying to achieve.
So long I haven't been using FreeCAD and been poluted by other evil CAD/CAM packages that I thought I'd better restart fresh with your series... After watching this first one, looks like I finally had a good idea ! ;-)
Thanks a ton for the will, time and effort put into this 🙏
Please keep it on
Thank you, its great that so many people are finding these tutorials useful and it's a great way to return to my roots in working in the 3D world 😁
Very nice set of videos! I hope you keep adding more. Your teaching style is fantastic.
Thank you for your kind comments. I have a lot of plans to add more videos including some additional mini series regarding certain subject areas as they don't really fit with this series. These will be such things as projects, how to builds, certain design areas i.e 2D drafting and technical drawing so there is a lot to come and I have more and more ideas and requests every day 😁
very helpful introduction to freecad cheers
Thank you for taking the time to produce these training videos.
Thank you. Glad your enjoying
Excellent tutorial, thank you for making these. Restarting FreeCAD after several prior attempts. Looking forward to completing your new series!
Great to hear.. 👍
Coming from a Catia V5 background, I love the default mouse controls. 👍
WOW! I am impressed. Thank you SO much for this! I saw some other FreeCAD tutorials and was very frustrated. You have in just the first segment answered a lot of my questions.
You're very welcome! I try to make all my videos that way. Concentrated but detailed. Glad it's helping and thank you 😊
Very nice this tutorial sir
So nice sir
Thank you for this first video in the series. I was able to get through it though had interruptions along the way. One thing I noticed that when I double click on the sketch model for some reason a new inner screen pops up that shows the recent files and examples. Which is a bit different from what you showed. I'm on a mac using freecad version 0.20.2-29603.
Best tutorial series out there! thank you for putting in the time and effort in making these videos. Wishing you more success!
Much appreciated! And thank you for the kind words. Glad your enjoying.
You are a god-send with these videos, I almost threw in the towel due to the quality of the other youtubers video I have found, thanks again
Glad your enjoying the videos. It's been my aim to make freecad more accessible for the masses. Glad yourself and others have given it another chance.
thank you so much for this tutorial! I honestly thought it was going to be an absolute pain to use, but the UI is misleading! I thought this was the same software my dad used to design roads in the early 2000s, but it turns out that it is a lot better than that! I use freecad for 3d printing since fusion360 wasn't available for Linux and I thought 'it's open source, will be better anyway'
Fantastic! Thank you very much for making it comprehensible EVEN to ME. Your work is incredibly helpful.
Great to hear its easy to follow, thank you for following along and enjoying the videos
So far the best the tutorial ive found! I cant wait to watch the series.
Glad to hear it! Thank you so much 😊😊😊
I am starting new with freeCAD. Your videos answer lots of my queries and i hope to keep on learning something new from your videos.
Great to hear, and welcome to the journey. Thank you for the kind comments. Many visits to come.
So beautiful inside and out ! Love you !!! ❤️
For smother lines, go to Edit > Preferences > Display > Anti-aliasing, and select "MSAA 8X".
Never knew that one! Thanks for sharing :)
Thank you for this. I am waiting on the delivery of my first 3D printer and I really want to be able to create my own parts, these tutorials are a Godsend. I'm getting myself an Ender 3 v2 and I hope to be able to create stuff to compliment my woodworking projects. Cheers for this. I will drop you a donation when pennies are available.
Glad your enjoying. Welcome to the journey and thank you for that 😊👍👍👍👍
Thank you so much for this course, I'm starting on 3D printing, and chosen FreeCAD as a part building platform. This course helped me a lot, I'm cuming from CGI (Caligari and Sculpt 4D Commodore Amiga, TrueSpace PC and finally Cinema 4D PC) so it's not like starting new. Cheers
Great to hear your enjoying the series. What did you use on the old Amiga (1200 or 4000?) I came from imagine3D then Lightwave on that platform, I loved that machine! Truespace finally made me change from Amiga to PC and then I want off to 3DSMax then Rhino. The Amiga was the most creative platform for it's day, I miss that machine (even have some emulation tutorials on my channel as that was what I originally made this channel for lol) The Amiga still has a huge following.
@@MangoJellySolutionsYes I'm 51 and my first computer was a Timex Sinclair 1000 (1982), than moved to ZX Spectrum 48K, back then I was already programing in Basic and did some graphical material on the ZX. When the Amiga computer was launched, it was a BIG leap in computer graphics, first I bought the Amiga 500 (still have it), and then the Amiga 3000 (sold it), it was a very expensive machine, but amazing too, used Caligari and Sculp 4D. My last Commodore machine was the Amiga 1200. Moved then to PC and used TrueSpace 4 and 7 for a long time, used 3DSMax for a while, but since Cinema 4D came out, never looked to another software. Now I just want to turn my ideas a reality thru 3D printing. Thank you for your answer. Merry Christmas.
Thankyou very much for this tutorials. I'm a new user of this program. Without your tutorials I'm lost.
Glad you enjoying them and finding them useful in your journey into learning freecad. 😊👍
What tools do you suggest to download for designing a truss bridge?
Just watched for revision. Finally got rid of those annoying error messages that pop up and learned some other bits too !
Great to hear, yep those messages are a right pain if you don't know how to get rid of them. Glad you found it useful.
Thanks for tutorial , iam interested in engineering so this is a good start
Awesome! I have been wondering if there was a way to see the origin point? And there it was. Thanks for the info. 👍
Awesome, Thank you
Excellent video and explanation. Thank you.
Thank you for these videos!!
You are welcome! 😊
Thank you so much, very useful video
Thank you! Just the control of the rotate tool was a great help.
Great to hear, thanks for feeding back 😊😊👍👍
Great video!
Thank you! This is an excellent tutorial. I'm looking forward to working through all of the videos.
Thank you for that and welcome to the journey 😁😁
@@MangoJellySolutions Well, I'm back at lesson one! Thank you again.
Just a note for future viewers of this video. As of today (2022-06-22) the download page shows 0.20 as the current stable version. I think it was updated a couple days ago. This should take away any potential anxiety about downloading a development version versus the publicly released "Current stable version".
Thanks so much for the work you put in to making this excellent series. Just an observation. On the mouse settings on windows 10 version not all the features are shown on the template popup when in CAD mode which is the default. In addition it seems impossible to do some of things like rotating the object. However if you set it to touchpad, then everything works as you describe with the mouse.
So glad your finding the tutorials usefully and your enjoying them. Yes it takes alot of work creating these tutorials, editing takes at least 3 times the amount of video running time and also making the written documents before which I release to patreon. So alot of work but it's well worth it to share h the knowledge. Thank you for highlighting the navigation issues, always greatful for comments as it enriches the channel. Hope you enjoy the rest of the videos. Many thanks.
Thank you sir
thank you very much! I will now give Freecad a chance.
Hope you enjoy it!
Some guidance here would really be appreciated. I initially struggled with conflicts between the tutorial and the application and then realized that these TUTS were for Ver 0.18 /19, whereas my downloaded FreeCAD was ver 0.21.1. Very happy to find your TUT for 0.20 /0.21, but conflicts from the get-go, for e.g. on your TUT (FreeCAD 0.20 For Beginners | 1 | Setup, preferences and navigation), the Edit /Preference / has tabs all the way across the top - you actually scroll to the right to get to "units". I don't have that., I have General /Document/Selection/Cache/Notifications/Area/Report View. The rest of the general page bears little resemblance. Where am I going wrong. I am delighted with your TUTS and can't wait to get moving. Take care - Steve, South Africa.
Thank you
your a life saver. thankyou so much!!!
Your welcome
Thank you..
Your turorila is really good, My big problem with FreeCad are the drop down box dialogue are so small I can not read them. I use a 27" monitor and the text in my laptop in your tutorials is 5x large and easy to read. HOW do you get the text in FreeCad larger.
Thank You
not all hero's wear capes! thank u allot! :D
Lol, thank you
thank you for these tutorials!
Thank you so much 😀 very kind.
SO very pleased to see this. Thank you!
Great tutorial! Thank you very much!
You're very welcome!
Thanks
Great job
Thank you
Great Tutorial! Thank you.
Glad you enjoyed.
20:19 In version 0.21.1 I don't have an option to create a new sketch. In fact, I had to create a separate toolbar to even see the button.
When I left the Sketcher workbench and went to Path and back, I got the regular toolbar that has the "Create sketch" option, but it was still greyed out.
Hitting escape a few times to exit the editing mode of the sketch allowed me to create a new one next to the old one.
I do like what I'm seeing so I did subscribe. Nice presentation, nicely done.
Thatch you very much 😊
Do you have a tutorial on ;inside outside gears? its to step down a medical drill that rotates at RPM 180. Needs to rotate at 60. Thinking a small gear driving a bigger gear would do it. ie small gear inside a bigger gear with inward teeth?
Nice 👌
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current version is 0.21 the menu tab names have changed, cannot find units and error messaging is now under a tab Report View. Do you have an undated version of your video for us newbies? please.. thanks
thanks
Thank you.
You're welcome!
Just getting started with this. Freecad is on version .21, so I hope that will not be too different to follow along with this series. Seems almost about the same. Some stuff in preferences was a little different though. I bought a 3d printer a few months back and looking forward to learning this. I took a cad course back in college using autodesk inventor... that was over 20 years ago lol.
There are a few differences but nothing to bad. The auto constraint option can be found from the sketcher constraints section from a small drop down. And the image workbench no longer exists but I have created a video telling you where the option to import and scale a image is now located. How you enjoy the series. Half way through I do change from 0.20 to 0.21
@@MangoJellySolutionsI've only done the first video so far. I figure I'll do a couple per week until I get my wings so to speak. This one was quite good. I got the software installed and just kinda got familiar with it. Next one should be more interesting.
Thank you for putting on the information. At 14.56 / 24.03 the means to turn around the subject is seen - two rounded arrows - like the pisces sign. I have not found this on my version which is Freecad 0 20 2. Can you tell me how to find the two arrows please?
Thank you!👍
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Thanks!
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Thanks a lot.
Most welcome!
Good day from Mexico.. I hope that you will help me. I am on Ubuntu 20.04 , with FreeCAD 0.18 . I have not been able to install 0.20 . quite different from your 0.20 . That leaves a lot of ?? One small item which I could use to test my printer, and use in general are stove (cooker knobs). would you set up a model file for me, and send it? The 3D resin would be much stronger - especially if the handle is solid. I will send the measurements. Thank you.
I am learning with the intention of using it to created achitectural drawings. (This is not PS or CorelDraw so tja).
On your screen, when adding the circle, your machine displays the X,Y coordinates in blue color. I think I have my FreeCAD setup exactly per your instruction, but the circles do not display the blue coordinates like you do. Which setting do I need to change/adjust?
thank you
You're welcome
Can be downloaded and installed through Linux Package manager. Too easy.
thanks for providing the course of study. If I succeed, in cad, it'll be a milestone. So far, cad programming has not been functional for me, requiring real study, but now I have more time, more Sitzfleisch.
CAD has a steep learning curve and it takes time to get the most out of it. But with practice you will soon be making your own models. It's one of the reasons I put this together and glad it's helping so many people.
I personally like the Tinker Cad movement. It's the closest to resembling Super Slicer software.
hey, i am also learning freeCAD.. and thought it might be more enjoyable and productive to have a learning partner. Interested in joining me?"
Help ... I get to the point of when you click on the line and when I move my mouse I don't see any white rectangle lines. I only get rotate arrows, when I hold down left mouse button and drag then the cube rotates the screen. I have looked at all the drop down settings and poked at every thing till I got frustrated. Am I not doing something right or is my software not working. I downloaded the windows ( FreeCAD_weekly-builds-30492-2022-10-17-conda-Windows-x86_64-py38 ) I am running windows 10. I have attempted to get this program to work several times now with no luck. Thnx.
how do you go from a shape w/o sides/surfaces to a part with surfaces/sides?
Thank you. This is by far best beginners tutorial. You take time to show EACH click not assuming we know.
Glad your enjoying and thank you for the kind comment. Enjoy the journey.
WOW, that is a nice playlist, just downloaded the software. It will take me a while but I will later give you my feed back. I am an AP, Apppointed Person, I do liftplans for lorry mounted cranes and I need a new look on my presentation documents for better illustration, and I think you could help with your tutorials.
I love seeing what people are using these videos for, amazes me each time. This one has to be one of the unique ones. Thanks for sharing and hope they help you with your work.
At about 14: 15 you were rotating the circle and it appears to be rotating around a point not on the circle. I assume that it was rotating around the origin. How can we turn on the origin or a grid so that the center of rotation is obvious?
Greetings sir, Please I'm Anthony chating from Nigeria, I want to go into 3D design and printing but don't know how to go about it most especially knowing the best machine product to buy for it.
Please can I get any help or guidance from here
On Mac I had to click FreeCAD-0.20.2 (to the left of File and Edit) to get to Preferences 5:57/24:03 [At time of writing 05/2023]
Please help. When I am creating a new sketch and choosing the centered circle the 3 xyz axis roll in space they don't stay put.
Just used fullscreen mode on windows 11. not a good idea as down menus stop working, so i couldn’t even exit it the same way i entered it. Alt+F11 worked.
Some newer or laptop keyboards may require the „fn“ key for „f11“ to even work.
Thanks for adding this as it will help others who have the same problems. Always welcomed.
Why are you bypassing setting up toolbars?
I've got next to no toolbars no mater what workbench I go into.
And I cannot find any info on what's going on.
Who can help with issues of a new install of V.20.2-29603 on a MacBook Pro? I can’t access the Preference menu option, it’s not there.
How do you go from a shape without sides/surfaces to a part with sides/surfaces?
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Hello..great starter video..just wondering if the 3dconnection space pilot mouse can be used with freecad..thanks
Thank you. In regards to your question I have no idea, I haven't even heard of that mouse. Now I am interested to know what it is.
Here's a link to a video..tks.th-cam.com/video/dwks3XHfFsU/w-d-xo.html
I might actually like this software than Fusion360. Especially after that last update where they no longer support old Windows software. I still use Windows 10.
Hey [Name], I'm learning HTML and CSS on TH-cam and thought it might be more enjoyable and productive to have a learning partner. Interested in joining me?
Is there any "User Guide" to learn how to Use this interesting tool?
Thank you os all nice and dandy but
But you forgot the
Architecture part of the program.😮
I couldn't believe it!!!!
I got really lost, workbench's were all messed up, I did not know what to do,,, so, I uninstalled everything, re d/l it again, started at the beginning, NOW it is starting to make sense, . If I have to go over the particular lesson, ok by me, I'll keep repeating it till I understand... thanks again for this and other great vids(tuts)
Sorry to hear everything went chaotic when you started but sounds like your winning now. I know the feeling. I just had to reinstall blender 3d for the exact same reason. Slow and steady is the way to master any program. No need to rush 😊
@@MangoJellySolutions sure do agree with you on the slow and steady part, I have tried to learn blender, was very tough for me, would you mind sharing with me the way you are learning blender? thanks
@@royalmaster203 I have been using blender for a while but I found that it's best to seek out the menu items rather than use short cut keys. It means that tutorials take 10 times as long to complete but things begin to stick. I hate watching the videos that are a barrage of short cut keys, they end up teaching you way too much in to short time and you miss so much. Going through the menus you find out what's also there and get an idea of how the program hangs together.
@@MangoJellySolutions thanks MangoJelly, do you mean the tutorials on Blender itself, there are many.. no shortage to learning new stuff, right now, I want to stick with Free cad, THEN start back on Blender, thanks again for helping me
When i click on sketcher, no tools appear :( , when i click on arch yes and other but not ot sketcher, what i need to fix ?
Excellent tutorial ! But you mentioned putting in the notes regarding installing on a Mac. ??
Thank you. And thank you for the heads up. The link should of been to an older video on my channel but the process is the same. I have updated the notes with the following link th-cam.com/video/RrPtLOVVKYA/w-d-xo.html
I did not realize FreeCAD would run on lynux ! Would it run on Rasberrian OS then ? I'm thinking a Raspberry Pi 4 might run it ? Or maybe not ? What would be the oldest pi that could run FreeCAD ?
I have heard of people running it on raspberry pi but I don't know how successful. But, I run it on a very old laptop before the first raspberry pi came out. So a raspberry pi 4 is more powerful than what I am using lol
@@MangoJellySolutionsOnly one way to find out a i suppose :) Thanks for the help learning FreeCAD. Still just a newb to freecad and the channel. Subbed and thumbs !